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“Kristy, Are You Doing Ok?” by The Offspring

“Kristy, Are You Doing Ok?” by The Offspring appears on 17 radio countdowns from 17 stations between 2008 and 2009. Its best result is #16 on the WVBR Top 93 of 2009. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #59 alternative song of 2009 and #499 of the '00s.

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The Offspring - Kristy, Are You Doing OK ( official music video HD )

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On Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace, the Offspring's eighth studio album from 2008, "Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?" is the moment the band drops its guard. Dexter Holland wrote it about a girl he knew as a kid who was being sexually abused; everyone in the neighborhood knew, Holland included, and nobody did a thing. The song is his apology to her, years too late.

Bob Rock produced it, and it went to radio as the album's third single in November 2008. Lex Halaby's video, which premiered in February 2009, plays the story out at school: a girl (Natalie Dreyfuss) pours the abuse into her diary, a boy standing in for the young Holland (Trevor Morgan) senses something is wrong and stays silent, and in the end she leaves the diary behind for him, its pages cut between shots of him with an acoustic guitar.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2008	94	KROQ Los Angeles, CA	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2008	106
2008	92	Live 105 San Francisco, CA	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2008	105
2008	89	KWOD Sacramento, CA	KWOD Top 106 Songs of 2008	106
2008	98	105.7 The Point St. Louis, MO	105.7 The Point Top 106 Songs of 2008	105
2009	83	Q101 Chicago, IL	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2009	101
2009	58	WFNX Boston, MA	WFNX Top 101 Songs of 2009	101
2009	53	CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON	102.1 The Edge The Top 102 of 2009	102
2009	37	The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2009	99
2009	16	WVBR Ithaca, NY	WVBR Top 93 of 2009	92
2009	84	94.5 The Buzz Houston, TX	94.5 The Buzz Top 94 of 2009	94
2009	24	X96 Salt Lake City, UT	X96 Top 50 Songs of 2009	50
2009	87	88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH	88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2009	88
2009	48	94.3 WCYY Portland, ME	WCYY Top 50 of 2009	50
2009	45	90.5 WERG Erie, PA	WERG Top 90 of 2009	90
2009	45	99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT	99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2009	99
2009	19	KSLG Eureka (Humboldt County), CA	KSLG Top 94 of 2009	94
2009	66	WBRU Providence, RI	WBRU Top 95.5 Songs of 2009	96

Also listed as: Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?; Kristy, Are You Doing Okay; Kristy Are You Doing OK; Kristy Are You Doing OK?; Kristy, Are You Doing OK?; Kristy Are You Doing Ok.

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